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The Empire at its largest extent is here.
So I suspect what happened here is that the map is actually from somewhere around 1900, and the map makers made the choice to exclude Bulgaria, which was still nominally a semi-automonous part of the Ottoman Empire at that point, but already de facto independent.
Scotland really is a seperate country within the UK
It's a part of the United Kingdom. Not an own country. Get your facts right, man.
(I am not pointing out that it should be changed but I genuinely want to know)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo#:~:text=Mobutu%20remained%20the%20head%20of,Democratic%20Republic%20of%20the%20Congo.
If an eastern Moldovan insisted that their country was "Transnistria", would we respect that in the same way? Or Chechnya, etc.
Having said that, we can use the term "country" a bit loosely, so there doesn't need to be a big debate about it.
Vermont is trickier, but I would still say they qualify as independent as they were definitely a sovereign state, and they had full control of their territory.
What I will say is that I think Texas's borders should be reduced to what they actually controlled, which was a much smaller part entirely within Texas's modern borders.
I think that Texas was a “country” for 10 years during the 19th century as much as Crimea was a “country” for a couple of days in 2014: both had control of its territories and were recognized by a major power. But the end-game for both so-called republics was to be annexed by the big neighbor next door.
https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/1306568/geographical-shapes